What would be an acceptable spam law?
Mark Darrah
regulations would help to eliminate the scumbags and still allow humans
(I'll refer to all non-spammers as humans) to use the internet without
obstructions? How could it be enforced?
I'm interested in hearing opinions on this. How do you make spam illegal
without taking humans' privacy rights away? Is it even DESIRABLE to make
spam illegal?
It seems that every bit of legislation is in the end a compromise.
Suggestions? Just brainstorming.
Morely Dotes
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>I'm very new to the anti-spam crusade and was just wondering. What
>regulations would help to eliminate the scumbags and still allow humans
>(I'll refer to all non-spammers as humans) to use the internet without
>obstructions? How could it be enforced?
Extend the Junk Fax law to cover e-mail spam specifically. No questions
asked, spammer sends you spam, you sue him in Small Claims, $500 per message.
Private action, no "enforcement."
>I'm interested in hearing opinions on this. How do you make spam illegal
>without taking humans' privacy rights away? Is it even DESIRABLE to make
>spam illegal?
It's desirable to make spammers dead.
>It seems that every bit of legislation is in the end a compromise.
That doesn't apply merely to spam, I'm sad to say.
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Emailed "spam" is just "email that is promotional in nature
and unsolicited by the recipient." That's all. It's about
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